On 04/12/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the various articles I read, it's suggested to never format > your card in the computer, only in the camera in which it will be used. > Amongst all the articles and comments that I read, someone - I forget who - > suggested formatting twice. This was someone whose work and expertise I > generally respect - of course, I can no longer recall who - maybe Bruce > Fraser? - and so I just got in the habit of formatting twice. NBD, > especially with a fast card matched to the capabilitiy of the istDS. Do I > need to do it? Perhaps not, but it makes me feel good and secure, so I do > it. And maybe it does help, and maybe some day it will save an image or > two, so for the expenditure of an additional 1.5 seconds per day, I'll > format twice.
I format and error check my CF and SD cards on my PC, I've never had a problem. The in camera format isn't a "real" format, it can mask card problems as it's not a thorough format. The only card that I've seen suffer adversely was an Olympus xD card, it has non-restorable data on the card and a PC format/write crash will render it unusable in the camera (but fine for any other purpose), POS system. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
